Good Appetites. ei 



" He prayeth best who loveth best 

 All things both great and small ; 

 For the dear God who loveth us, 

 He made and loveth all." 



In these days we feel for the Deevil himself, and 

 wish with Burns that he would take a thought and 

 mend ; and, as Howells says, " if we had the naming of 

 creation we wouldn't call snakes snakes " if the christen- 

 ing took place while we were coaching. 



No one would believe what fearful appetites driving 

 in this climate gives one. Shall we ever feel such 

 tigerish hunger again ! but, what is just as important, 

 shall we ever again have such luncheons ! " Give me a 

 sixpence," said the beggar to the duke, " for I have 

 nothing." "You lie, you beggar; I'd give a thousand 

 pounds for such an appetite as you've got." Well, 

 ours would have been cheap to you, my lord duke, at 

 double the money. What a roar it caused one day 

 when one of the young ladies was discovered quietly 

 taking the third slice of cold ham. " Well, girls, you 

 must remember I was on the front seat, and had to 

 stand the briuit of the weather this morning." Capital ! 

 I had been there at her side, and got my extra allow- 

 ance on the same ground ; and those who bore the brunt 

 of the weather claimed a great many second and even 

 third allowances during the journey. 



Aleck {AdXtzV^ not El-eck, remember), set the table 

 in a roar so often with his funny sayings and doings 



